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Baum To Play on LXM Tour, Signs with Adrenaline

updated 05.22.2013 at 10.51 p.m.

About 12 hours after the MLL's Ohio Machine announced that 2012
Tewaaraton Award winner and 2013 No. 1 overall MLL draft pick Peter
Baum was not expected to join the team this summer because of a
meniscus injury, Adrenaline Lacrosse announced that Baum will play
on the LXM Pro Tour starting at a June 8 event in Orange County,
Calif. Adrenaline and LXM merged last year and Baum will have a
fulltime job with Adrenaline's marketing team.

"I have a great deal of respect and am certainly appreciative of
the Ohio Machine for selecting me first in the draft and wish them
the best of luck in their season," Baum said in a press release. My
decision to join Adrenaline and LXM PRO has everything to do with
my desire to help usher in the new generation of conscientious
lacrosse athletes in the areas that I have a personal connection
with. I am excited to play at this high level with so many great
players and am equally thrilled to be a part of the mission of
Adrenaline and LXM PRO."

Baum has deep roots with Adrenaline, playing and coaching in its
club programs. Ahead of January's MLL Collegiate Draft, there was
speculation that Baum would join the LXM Pro Tour instead of MLL.
But the Machine drafted him No. 1 overall anyway, and said
Wednesday that Baum was not playing this year because of
injury.

"After telling us that he has been battling a meniscus injury,
we don't expect Peter to join the Machine this year," Ohio general
manager John Algie said in a press release that also announced that
rookies Marcus Holman, Logan Schuss and Dominique Alexander will
join the team on Thursday for a CBS Sports Network televised game
against the Hamilton Nationals.

Baum's production dropped significantly this year from his
Tewaaraton winning campaign of 2011, when he had 97 points. Baum
had 47 points this season for Colgate, almost exactly half his
total from a season earlier, and Colgate's season ended in the
Patriot League tournament semifinals.

Also in its announcement Wednesday, the Machine said that they
expect another of their draftees, Lynchburg defenseman Joe Lisicky,
to apply for a medical redshirt in the offseason after missing most
of his senior year with a lower-body injury. Lisicky was Lacrosse
Magazine's Division III men's Preseason Player of the Year.

Holman, a Tewaaraton Award finalist, and Schuss, a Tewaaraton
nominee, join the Machine after their seasons at North Carolina and
Ohio State, respectively, ended over the weekend in the NCAA
quarterfinals.